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Color in Film

For this post, I will be talking about the different colors in a film like the whites and blacks coming together. A great example will be the White Zombie which shows that whites and blacks could be zombies as well but in different zombie movies they can’t. Sometimes the director will want the blacks to be evil. Romero’s work includes some heroes. Many people will be either confused or lost by knowing that blacks could play good roles instead of evil roles. Throughout the years of the making of horror films, it started the whites were good people, blacks turns evil every time, and implying they can’t be good. For example, Get Out is a movie about the girlfriend’s family not accepting a black boyfriend. The parents proceed to play voodoo on him to turn “good” like them as if the blacks are not good already as is. 

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Get Out, 2017

Hello reader, I will be talking about the movie itself “Get Out.” I haven’t seen the movie myself but watching this clip above it gives a lot of information about the movie. The main character of the movie is called Chris. He is meeting his girlfriend’s family for the first time and gets some strange looks from the parent’s visitors. Chris and another visitor are the only African Americans present in the scene and Chris asked the visitor about his history with African Americans. The visitor answers the question until Chris snaps a picture of him and goes crazy. The visitor shouts, “GET OUT” while bleeding from his nose and giving him a sign that he should leave the household before it is too late. He, later on, comes back as in nothing happened. This is an example of voodoo happening since the parents are in some type of witchcraft stuff. The girlfriend seems to not know what is going on but Chris is aware something is wrong with her parents. I will definitely now watch the film to see what happens next. 

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The Girl With All The Gifts,

Hello reader, I will be explaining this part of the clip of “The Girl with All the Gifts”. The story overall is about several children immune to a mutated fungal disease that will turn into cannibalistic zombies. In the clip above it is shown that the woman wants to help the child but suddenly the child discovers someone taking over her body and wanting to hurt the woman. As the woman is untying the child who was stuck on the chair finds the opportunity to attack the woman. The good news is the child told her to leave the room. The child proceeds to find ways to get out safely as she is a dangerous weapon to others. As you could see the child is possessed by the spirit of the zombies but at the end of the story she saves herself from evil. 

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Zombie in Film, pt.3 David Strohecker

For this article, I will like to talk about the zombie renaissance. The zombie renaissance includes films like 28 days later, Dawn of the Dead, and the Walking Dead. What they all have in common is disease-infected by the zombies themselves. Along with the apocalypse happening. In 28 Days Later, it is said to be a “rage virus” leading to threats to survival. This is true once you’re inflected in some way shape or form it is safe to say that you will die. If someone were to be inflected I would love to kill them before it gets to me. In a way, I feel like the human will appreciate being killed too. The zombie renaissance gives different protective of the past to the future. The future now is implying zombies into monsters. This is understandable considering that zombies don’t really talk but eat people. 

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On Race And Night Of the Living Dead, Kyle Allkins

In this article, Kyle Allkins speaks out about people who claim to think there is no way a horror film could involve racism. Judith Halberstam claims that “it would be very difficult in a horror film to show and punish racism simultaneously,” according to Allkins that is not the case. She goes on and talks about how zombie films have racism, racial profiling, racial violence, and racial self-hatred and link racism with sexism. Many people don’t be African Americans as good guys but make them feel like the bad guy. This takes me back to the White Zombie I talked about before and how not only African Americans are zombies but whites as well. For example, the main character lady became a zombie after being poisoned. Allkins admires Romero’s work in all his zombie films being represented by African Americans and allowing them to be heroes as well. Zombies are represented by any race and will continue in cinema history. I feel like it can be an easy multiple-cultural thing to do in films. You can never go wrong with the representation of race in a Zombie. 

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Night of the Living Dead, 1990 film

Hello Readers, I will be talking about the “Night of the Living Dead” but particularly a scene as shown above in the post. A woman named Barbara is living her life with a group of other survivors from zombies. She acknowledges that zombies are just like them, humans. Before one became a zombie they’re human. Later proceeds have been affected by some sort of another zombie. Barbara says to herself, “They are us, we are them” as she watches the human being hang on the tree. She knows that they were once human or are human but no one knows and people decide to shoot them down. Later on in the scene, the two men destroy a door and found themselves another zombie who happens to be black with colored white eyes. As in Barbara had some type of relationship with the zombie. The two men kill them and Barbara doesn’t react. She finds another guy who she once knew but shot him. I feel like she wanted to act cool in front of the two men but that wasn’t the case. She wanted to feel wanted and feel like the rest of the group who also kill zombies. If the group found out about the relationship she had with the black zombie she could’ve been dead herself. Sad to see her not react in any type of way but he is a zombie and could be dangerous. 

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Definition of Horror by Daniel Shaw

In this article, Daniel Shaw talks about his definition of horror. To begin with I am not a fan of horror but lately grew out my branch for horror films. Daniel tells us his 4-year-old love horror films like monster and Goosebumps. He goes on and explain why he disagrees with Caroll who is The Philosophy of Horror. Like for example, “the emotion of art-horror is not our absolutely primary aim in the consuming of horror fictions...Rather, art-horror is the price we are willing to pay for the revelation of that which is impossible and unknown, of that which violates our conceptual schema.” aka monsters. Daniel explains that monsters are uniformly dangerous but impure. Caroll thinks otherwise and is not as existing. In my opinion, monsters aren’t shown very much in films anymore. Monsters could be animals or humans but mainly animals in this case. I believe that monsters could be used more as art pictures like Caroll mentioned because some monsters don’t talk. People will define monsters as pets or be confused by the concept of horror. 

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Hello Again Readers,

I wanted to add the scene where Anthony is at the art gallery trying to figure out what he is and what is going on. This is a perfect scene about how Candyman protects his people instead of white people who did him wrong back in 1980. Enjoy !!!

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Hello Readers, I will be talking about the movie “Candyman” the 2021 version. A quick summary of the “Candyman” in the 1992 version, it has been told if you say the name “Candyman” in front of the mirror 5 times he will show up and kill you with his hook. Candyman was the son of a slave by a wealthy lander. He fell in love with the daughter of the lander and who got pregnant. Which led to Candyman getting excluded by the father and covered in by honey. Helen turns out to be a look-alike to Candyman's old lover. Keep in mind that Helen saved baby Anthony from Candyman by a bonfire. 

The film “Candyman” 2021 talks about Anthony who is now a grown adult who now lives in Chicago. His mother tries to forget about the past by moving cities but he gets daydreams about the past he didn’t know about. Anthony is an artist himself and captures pictures from where Candyman lives. He comes back and starts getting visions and starts painting those visions. Turns out that Anthony was becoming one with Candyman and controlling him. This movie shows more about black history through the number of characters who are played. After watching the movie, I noticed how much Candyman is helping black people not to be killed because his dad was a slave once. Very symbolic to see how Candyman kinda protects his people by killing all the white police officers. Keep in mind Anthony is being controlled by Candyman. It is good storytelling of how much it is connected between the past and now. It shows how much history can repeat itself by having the same fights about one race oneself. Blacks and whites are constantly repeating the same issue of not getting the same rights. 

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Hello Readers! This is the ending of the clip where voodoo is being performed and zombies are shown. Enjoy the happy ending

(The lady is being voodooed by the Murder until he is dead she is no longer voodoo)

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Hello Readers! I will be talking about the movie “White Zombie” a 1932 film. The film is about zombies, voodoo, and romance. It begins with a couple who are getting married on an island. Little do they know it is full of zombies hidden in the wild. Charles had invited the couples, Madeline and Neil, to his place to sleep over for the night. Neil notices that Charles has a thing for his fiance Madeline who is now worried. Charles wants Madeline to fall in love so he decides to go to the Murder to receive some type of potion that turns her into a zombie. On the day of her wedding, Charles gives Madeline a rose and sniffs it. The rose had contained the potion which she died later that night. The Muder is now in control of Madeline as a voodoo doll. Charles didn’t like her anymore because she wasn’t happy so she wanted to redo the curse. The next part is the romantic part of the story where I remembered the story of Romero and Juliet. The Murder turns Charles into a zombie and now is his voodoo but the Muder commands Madeline to kill her husband, Neil, who showed up drunk at the castle. This part of the story is where voodoo is being used as a power source to control all his “dolls”. Madeline doesn’t kill her husband anymore and gets lost outside near the ocean. Everyone runs outside to follow and starts to attack the husband with all the zombies. Neil shoots them and lets them fall off the cliff of the ocean. The Murder is left behind but Charles jumps him towards the cliff and they both die. It was romantic that Charles wasn’t being selfish and wanted her happiness only with her husband Niel. Voodoo became a dangerous weapon to use against zombies and humans. It was within the Murder power of the Roman Catholic ritual with African magic and spirit possession. 

Thank you for reading! Welcome to give any opinion about the movie or any questions.

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Hello readers! Enjoy this clip of the introduction to Blacula (1972)

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Hello Readers! Today we will endeavor to discuss William Crain’s (1972) Blacula and tie in the theme of Blaxploitation. The film takes place in Transylvania in the year 1780 and focuses on the African prince, Prince Mamuwalde, attempt to persuade Count Dracula to stop the slave trade. Count Dracula ultimately insults the prince as well as his wife, Luva. Chaos breaks out as Count Dracula and his minions attempt to attack Mamuwalde. At first Mamuwalde seems as if he is able to hold his own but unfortunately ends up being bitten by Count Dracula and ultimately turned into a vampire. Count Dracula decides to entrap Mamuwalde in a coffin leaving him and his wife to suffer for eternity and on top of that, he decides to curse him with the name “Blacula.” Decades later, the film is now taking place in the year 1972 and we’re introduced to Blacula’s first victims, a gay couple known as Bobby McCoy and Billy Schafer who purchased the coffin and had it shipped to Los Angeles where they ultimately end up opening the coffin and meeting their untimely demise. The film is a timeless classic that is also known as the first blaxploitation horror film. Blaxploitation can be defined as a ethnic subgenre that deals with the exploitation of Black actors by producers of Black-oriented films. The Blaxploitation genre also portrays powerful Black characters coming into the film industry as a response to systemic racism. The reason I felt it was necessary to list Blacula as a blaxploitation film is due to the classic story of “Dracula” being turned into a gothic black tale and the main character is a powerful black man who is a mysterious blood-sucking entity. To conclude, William Crain truly changed the trajectory of horror films and Black characters in such a classic and timeless way. Thank you for reading, horror fans!